Posted on 12/31/2015 8:11:22 AM PST by Lorianne
Tim Cook has come out about a real truth of the decline in manufacturing. What he omitted however, is that no one will manufacture in the U.S. unless they absolutely have to due to a 38% corporate tax rate.
On 60 Minutes Sunday, Charlie Rose asked Apple CEO Tim Cook about his company’s manufacturing practices in China. Cook said the decision to use Chinese manufacturing has nothing to do with American workers demanding higher wages. He said it was because the Chinese have more skill.
“Let me be clear,†Cook told Rose, “China put an enormous focus on manufacturing in what you and I would call vocational skills. The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational skills.
(Excerpt) Read more at thechinamoneyreport.com ...
It should be a file named
"Screen Shot 2015-12-27 at 7.38.20 PM.png"
in your documents folder. I usually use them as temporary until I upload them to a photo service to use on FR. I use
because it's free. You upload the photo there and they convert it to a weird named compressed in several format .jpgs. I usually use the one at the bottom of the list of four. You can sort your stored files there in folders. I'd suggest renaming them before uploading.
Then you post it on FR using the html command:
(center)(img src="" width = "500")(/center)
Exchange every every left and right parens with left and right caret. Put the complete URL from TinyPics.com between the quotation marks. Done. You can resize the image by changing the 500 to what ever size you want. The height of the image dynamically changes along with the width.
Now that is funny. Thanks.
Utter bullcrap. Assembly work and line work takes no skill what so ever.
CEO's, like this Apple douche bag, tell these whoppers to make themselves feel better about business decision that are really counter America and do nothing but stretch a huge profit margin by a few pennies on the dollar. He is an American and he has a conscious and he knows Americans would pay a tiny little bit more for a made in the USA product.. there was a time when corporate America actually acted like American companies.
To make matters worse he tries to justify manufacturing in suicide net equipped factories in Asia BY INSULTING AMERICANS AS STUPID AND LAZY.. He is a real piece of work, almost comical. It is hilarious that anyone would defend him and call themselves ans American Patriot and conservative.
Yup. . . I use them as a service to hold my photos for uploading to FreeRepublic. They are free and easy to use.
Actually it does. Workers on Apple's assembly line are using high-tech tools and need to be able to work controls and be able to understand what they are doing. Many of them are testing things as they do them. They have to read dials, verniers, measure, etc. It is not grunt work. . . of course some is actually grunt work, but some is fine motor skill work.
I’ve been building jsp’s and html for years so I am familiar with how to post an image. I am not going to go thru all that trouble of using tinyPic whatever to upload a screen capture of my about mac os page. If you don’t believe that I am on a mac right now who cares? Why would I lie about that. I have a Windoze laptop for work because I have to use that to VPN into my job. After business hours and on weekends I am on my mac.
Give me a break it takes 5 minutes to learn those jobs....
LOL
I do now. You allayed my suspicions, FRiend.
You'd be surprised how many of them don't have the math skills required. Too many passed through school without the math sticking in their heads.
Do you use the UNIX on your Macs?
Most of China's big SOE's are publicly traded. Some are more overt than others. Huawei and ZTE are almost certainly SOE's, just as Lenovo (Legend) is an SOE. From a CSIS report on Huawei:
In 1996, the Chinese government began explicitly supporting domestic Chinese telecommunications firms,
ending special import policies for telecoms equipment, and both the government and military began
touting Huawei as one of their national champions.24 Also in 1996, both Liu Haiqing, the vice chairman of
the Central Military Commission, and Wu Bangguo, the vice premier, made high-profile visits to the
Shenzhen headquarters.25 Huawei was making great strides in terms of product development and sales.
Sales were no longer just relegated to the countryside, and according to the Far Eastern Economic Review,
Huawei won large contracts with the national railway system, the state body in charge of infrastructure
development in the Yellow River Valley, and in major cities such as Beijing and Guangdong.26 Again
according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, “that helped unlock more finance. In 1998, for example,
the Beijing headquarters of China Construction Bank lent the company 3.9 billion renminbi [RMB] in
buyer’s credit—representing 45 percent of the total credit it extended that year.”27 Anecdotal reports also
suggest that the government made these loans in order to cover for government-affiliated institutions that
were not paying Huawei for its services. Whether this money was ever repaid is unclear; it may have
essentially been a government transfer, adding to worries about present-day government leverage.
Although it is impossible to know the extent or exact nature of state support, by the company’s own
admission, Huawei’s relationship with the government was crucial for a fledgling company playing catchup
against established competitors. In Ren’s words, “Huawei was somewhat naive to choose
telecommunications equipment as its business domain in the beginning. Huawei was not prepared for
such an intensified competition when the company was just established. The rivals were internationally
renowned companies with assets valued at the tens of billions of dollars. If there had been no government
policy to protect [nationally owned companies], Huawei would no longer exist.”28
The excerpted report gets the name of the CMC member wrong (Liu Haiqing should be Liu Huaqing), but the rest is about par for the course for Chinese SOE's. The adage that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL) goes double in China, where ledgers of favors and favors owed are tallied meticulously. Almost by definition, secret Party holdings of significant "privately-held" Chinese companies will be hidden from the public eye. In some cases, I expect that some of these shares are held directly by senior Party members, which is one reason for the secrecy, and also why so many have Ferrari-driving kids and grandkids studying abroad at expensive marquee name schools despite relatively low (by Western standards) Chinese government salaries.
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When I develop shell scripts I use command line edit testing on mac. My costumer uses solaris so sometimes their are slight differences.
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